the problem is there are many many different software components to premiere. so in a worse case scenario it might use 2 cores max, in another it might be well over 12. so around 8 or possibly 10 is kind of the happy medium. so far benchmarks on the 10 core i7 are showing it working very well in premiere over the 8 core, but still hard for many to justify that price tag. its the same with the gpu benchmarks or test scenarios, sometimes gpu acceleration is hardly being used so different gpu's make little to no difference and sometimes premiere needs alot of gpu power for another scenario. that's why i wanted to see more well rounded, or full, gpu benchmarks with amd vs nvidia, to really see in which scenario's amd cards perform different. he did have plenty of hardware power for some testing to be useful, but he did very limited testing. you have to also remember, linus covers all sorts of tech, so he doesn't specialize in any one thing. kinda like the saying, "good at everything, great at nothing". his staff members edit his videos, so he probably barely knows the basics of premiere and just ran some tests until one (the third and last one in the video) finally did something he could report on. the first two tests could be seen as a waste, as they are bottlenecked results. but between the first two and last test results it does show that there are difference scenarios where the gpu wont be used as much, and any descent card will work fine. his conclusion statements might be taken in different ways, he goes from saying there isn't enough difference to recommend faster cards and then saying that if you are using different tools (software/plugins) it might be different (as in a faster card might be better). thats a big if that he doesn't fully explain and for many people its the reason why they need fast and sometimes even multiple gpu's with premiere and/or other software they might be using on the same computer. he concludes on a statement of diminishing returns, which could be taken as diminishing returns in premiere, or for prices of the gpu cards like the gtx 980 and above...
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